Lost City Books 2026 Translation Salon

Chloe Garcia Roberts, the translator of Lost In Peach Blossom Paradise, the first book in the series Little Yu and the Treelings by Xiong Liang, will be in conversation with authors and translators Nancy Naomi Carlson and Alex Brostoff. The conversation will be centered around their experiences translating fiction and poetry, and the specificities of the source languages they translate from (including Spanish, Mandarin, French, and Portuguese).The Translation Salon will take place on August 4th, 2026 at The Line Hotel in their Carina Room. There will some wine, snacks, mingling and a book signing!

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of The Reveal, which was published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing and Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology which was a finalist for CLMP’s Firecracker Award in creative nonfiction and the New Mexico Book Awards in poetry and nonfiction.

Nancy Naomi Carlson is a recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and decorated by the French government with the Academic Palms. She is the translations editor for On The Seawall, the co-translations editor for Pleiades, and is co-chair of PEN America’s Translation Committee.

Alex Brostoff is a scholar, writer, and translator. They are co-editor of the collection Autotheories (The MIT Press, 2025) and have guest edited special journal issues on autotheory (2021) and trans literatures (2025). Brostoff’s first book, a critical reframing of autotheory, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.

The conversation will be moderated by Yvette Neisser.

Yvette Neisser is an award-winning poet, Spanish translator, and founder of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT). Her co-translation of Venezuelan poet Maria Teresa Ogliastri’s From the Diary of Madame Mao won the 2025 Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation Prize and will be published in Fall 2026.

Note: The Line has an accessible entrance at 2468 Champlain St NW. Please email events@lostcitybookstore.com with questions.